I C H N O L O G Y OF ANNANDALE.
" Tlio nistorian or the Antiquary may liave traversed the fields of aiicicut or of modem battles; and may have pursued the
line of march of tiiumpliant couqucrors, whose annies trauipled down the most mighty kingdoms of the world. The winds and
stoi-ms have utterly obliterated the ephemeral impressions of their course. Not a track remains of a single foot or a shigle hoof,
of all the countless millions of men and beasts whose progress spread desolation over the earth. But the Reptiles that crawled
upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, liave left memorials of their passage, enduring and indelible. Centuries, and
thousands of ycai-s, may have rolled away, between the time in whieh these Footsteps were impressed by Tortoises upon the sands of
their native Scotland, and the hour when they are again laid bare, and exposed to our curious and admu-mg eyes. Yet we beiiold
them stamped upon the rock, distinct as the ti-ack of the passing animal upon the recent snow; as if to show that thousands of
years arc but as nothing amidst eternity —and, as it were, in mockery of the fleeting peiishahle course of the mightiest Potentates
among mankind." — Buckland, Bridg. Treatise.
T H E few remains or traces of remains tliat Have occurred in the formations of the NEW RED S.VXDSTONE,
either abroad or in Great Britain, while it is proved by their footsteps, that numerous animals of different
species, must have travelled over its surface at a period previous to its consolidation, are facts which have
excited much interest among Greologists, from the difficulty that has been experienced both in reconciling tlie